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Monday's raid to nab suspected leaders of that outbreak made good on vows by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in November that such violence "can not remain unpunished." But on Monday Sarkozy's political rivals questioned whether the real objective of the busts wasn't instead to stage a diversion to the President's plunging approval ratings with a bit of heart-stirring crime fighting for the nation's media to lap up. Such high-profile law-and-order activity, Sarkozy's detractors allege, might also help limit losses the right is expected to suffer should voters use nationwide municipal...
...operation was intended to strike a blow for law and order. On Monday more than 1,000 French riot cops raided apartments in several suburban housing projects north of Paris, arresting 33 of the 37 suspected leaders of ultra-violent rioting in the region last November. But along with cheers, the spectacular dawn raid reaped plenty of scorn. Former Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal called it "spectacle politics;" it was a mix "of justice and stage craft" in the opinion of centrist leader Francois Bayrou. Normal enough, of course, for the opposition to carp at government action. But this time...
...Charter Communications, the cable provider for about 225,000 residents in suburban St. Tammany Parish, left many affluent fans unable to watch their team. To add to the Hornets' hard luck, the cash-strapped team was set to receive a much-needed $47 million loan from Societe Generale, the French bank that employed a rogue trader who just cost the firm a cool $7 billion. The bank has shut down its U.S. sports lending practice, though Hornets president Hugh Weber insists Societe Generale assured him the deal will go through...
...that generation of reformers, the West was the shiny future, progress the ultimate good. English and French were spoken round the dinner table, and the women gathered to knit the latest Paris fashions. These children of a revolution dreamed of a westernized Turkey, and naively believed a little social engineering would get them there. Modernity was their religion...
...police chief Brody in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, Roy Scheider at last sees the 25-foot great white and says to shark hunter Quint, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." The ex-boxer first got attention, and an Oscar nomination, as Gene Hackman's police partner in The French Connection and proved he could be vulnerable as choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's semiautobiographical All That Jazz, a role for which he had to learn to dance. The film, Scheider's favorite, won him critical raves and another Oscar nod. He was 75 and had blood cancer...